Re: A canvas question

Helmut Giese wrote:
> Hello out there,
> Tk's canvas is a marvellous widget, albeit a bit complex.
> Right now I'm struggling with the following: I have lots of text items
> on a canvas, and for some of them I want to change the font color and
> the background.
> Changing the font color is easy with the -fill option, but I haven't
> found a way to individually set the background color for a text item.
> I hope that I'm just overlooking something obvious.
> Any hints or ideas will be greatly appreciated.
> Best regards
> Helmut Giese

put a rectangle behind it, use the bbox of the text item for the
coordinates.

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